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it within about twenty acres full of ruins and relics of old 
buildings.” 
In the “ History of King Arthur” (Chap. 26), Camelot 
is located in the west of England, Sozersetshire ; while in 
Chapter 44, it is related that Sir Balen’s sword “swam 
down the stream to the citie of Camelot, that is, in 
English, Winchester.” When Caxton finished the print- 
ing of the “Mort d’Arthur,”* he says of the hero :— 
“He is more spoken of beyond the sea, . . . . and 
yet of record remain witness of him in Wales, in the 
town of Camelot, the great stones and marvelous 
works,” &c. Tennyson, in his “Mort d’Arthur,” twice 
mentions Camelot, and in his “Lady of Shalott” 
frequently alludes to “many-tower'd Camelot,” but in 
neither poem is any clue to its precise situation 
given. 
“ Mercutio. Nay, if our wits run the weld-goose chase, I 
am done; for thou hast more of the wild-goose in one of 
thy wits, than, I am sure, I have in my whole five. Was 
I with you there for the goose ? 
‘Romeo. Thou wast never with me for anything, when 
thou wast not there for the goose. 
Mer. 1 will bite thee by the ear for that jest. 
Rom. Nay, good goose, bite not. 
* Translated from the French by Sir Thos. Mallory, Knt., and first printed by 
Caxton, A.D. 1481. 
